One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think they already… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Often, I'm spending months with a person in a very intimate context, getting to know the ins and outs of what they ate for… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars. — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
